How to: Create Mail-Enabled Contacts
This example shows how to provision a Microsoft Exchange 2000 or Exchange 2003 mail-enabled contact. The example assumes that you are using the Active Directory Connector (ADC) to maintain interoperability between Exchange 5.5 and Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS).
Note
Microsoft Exchange 5.5 is deprecated.
Attribute Inclusion List
You must select the following attributes from the Select Attributes property page for your AD DS management agent to provision an Exchange mail-enabled contact:
mailNickname
targetAddress
legacyExchangeDN (If you are supporting a mixed Exchange environment. See Creating a Mail-Enabled Contact in a Mixed Exchange Environment later in this topic.)
Creating a Mail-Enabled Contact in a Homogeneous Exchange Environment
The following examples show how to use a rules extension to provision an Exchange mail-enabled contact. You must add a reference to logging.dll to use the LogException method.
Public Sub Provision(ByVal mventry As MVEntry) _
Implements IMVSynchronization.Provision
Dim adMA As ConnectedMA
Dim csentry As CSEntry
Dim nickName, targetAddress As String
Dim dn as ReferenceValue
try
adMA = mventry.ConnectedMAs("Fabrikam AD MA")
nickName = mventry("mailNickname").Value
targetAddress = mventry("targetAddress").Value
' Construct the distinguished name.
dn = adMA.EscapeDNComponent("CN=" + mventry("cn").Value).Concat("ou=mailboxes,dc=fabrikam,dc=com")
If 0 = adMA.Connectors.Count then
csentry = ExchangeUtils.CreateMailEnabledContact(adMA, dn, nickName, targetAddress)
End If
' Log and rethrow any exception.
Catch ex As Exception
Logging.Logging.LogException(ex, "Provision", "Caught exception", False)
Throw
End Try
End Sub
void IMVSynchronization.Provision (MVEntry mventry)
{
ConnectedMA adMA;
CSEntry csentry;
String nickName, targetAddress;
ReferenceValue dn;
try
{
adMA = mventry.ConnectedMAs["Fabrikam AD MA"];
nickName = mventry["mailNickname"].Value;
targetAddress = mventry["targetAddress"].Value;
// Construct the distinguished name.
dn = adMA.EscapeDNComponent("CN=" + mventry["cn"].Value).Concat("ou=mailboxes,dc=fabrikam,dc=com");
if(0 == adMA.Connectors.Count)
{
csentry = ExchangeUtils.CreateMailEnabledContact(adMA, dn, nickName, targetAddress);
}
}
// Log and rethrow any exception.
catch(Exception ex)
{
Logging.Logging.LogException(ex, "Provision", "Caught exception", false);
throw;
}
}
Creating a Mail-Enabled Contact in a Mixed Exchange Environment
If your environment includes a mixed configuration of Exchange 5.5 and Exchange 2000 or Exchange 2003 servers, and you are using the Active Directory Connector to synchronize with Exchange 5.5, you must perform an additional step after you call the CreateMailEnabledContact method in your provisioning process: You must update the legacyExchangeDN connector to an Administrative Group to which a connection agreement of the Active Directory Connector points.
The following examples show how to use a rules extension to provision an Exchange mail-enabled contact in a mixed Exchange environment. You must add a reference to logging.dll to use the LogException method.
Public Sub Provision(ByVal mventry As MVEntry) _
Implements IMVSynchronization.Provision
Dim adMA As ConnectedMA
Dim csentry As CSEntry
Dim nickName, targetAddress, rdnWithoutType, rdn, adminGroup As String
Dim dn as ReferenceValue
Dim equalSignInRDN As Integer
try
adMA = mventry.ConnectedMAs("Fabrikam AD MA")
nickName = mventry("mailNickname").Value
targetAddress = mventry("targetAddress").Value
' Construct the distinguished name.
dn = adMA.EscapeDNComponent("CN=" + mventry("cn").Value).Concat("ou=mailboxes,dc=fabrikam,dc=com")
If 0 = adMA.Connectors.Count then
csentry = ExchangeUtils.CreateMailEnabledContact(adMA, dn, nickName, targetAddress)
equalSignInRDN = csentry.RDN.ToString().IndexOf("=")
rdnWithoutType = csentry.RDN.Substring(equalSignInRDN + 1)
rdn = "cn=" + rdnWithoutType + "-" + System.Guid.NewGuid().ToString()
adminGroup = "CN=First Administrative Group,CN=Administrative Groups,CN=Fabrikam,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=fabrikam,DC=com"
csentry("legacyExchangeDN").Value = adminGroup + "/" + rdn
End If
' Log and rethrow any exception.
Catch ex As Exception
Logging.Logging.LogException(ex, "Provision", "Caught exception", False)
Throw
End Try
End Sub
void IMVSynchronization.Provision (MVEntry mventry)
{
ConnectedMA adMA;
CSEntry csentry;
String nickName, targetAddress, rdnWithoutType, rdn, adminGroup;
ReferenceValue dn;
int equalSignInRDN;
try
{
adMA = mventry.ConnectedMAs["Fabrikam AD MA"];
nickName = mventry["mailNickname"].Value;
targetAddress = mventry["targetAddress"].Value;
// Construct the distinguished name.
dn = adMA.EscapeDNComponent("CN=" + mventry["cn"].Value).Concat("ou=mailboxes,dc=fabrikam,dc=com");
if(0 == adMA.Connectors.Count)
{
csentry = ExchangeUtils.CreateMailEnabledContact(adMA, dn, nickName, targetAddress);
equalSignInRDN = csentry.RDN.ToString().IndexOf("=");
rdnWithoutType = csentry.RDN.Substring(equalSignInRDN + 1);
rdn = "cn=" + rdnWithoutType + "-" + System.Guid.NewGuid().ToString();
adminGroup = "CN=First Administrative Group,CN=Administrative Groups,CN=Fabrikam,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=fabrikam,DC=com";
csentry["legacyExchangeDN"].Value = adminGroup + "/" + rdn;
}
}
// Log and rethrow any exception.
catch(Exception ex)
{
Logging.Logging.LogException(ex, "Provision", "Caught exception", false);
throw;
}
}